As a 4th year medical student I highly value the
work that you do in ensuring my training in residency will be sufficient. However, I am horrified to learn that you are
proposing the removal of family planning training guidelines for family
practice residents. Many US women go to
a FP as their primary healthcare provider for comprehensive health care – from the
treatment of acute sickness to the delivery of their babies and everything in
between. The vast majority of women in
the United States use contraception.
Now, if a FP isn’t trained to provide their female patients with
counseling on contraception, pregnancy options, and the such, where are these
women expected to turn? It is an
equation that makes no sense at all and will lead to subpar care for many US
women, especially poor women and those in underserved communities.
Please do not change the requirements for family planning physicians. Women count on their providers, and we as
providers need to be trained in how to provide comprehensive reproductive
health care. If we’re not trained, then
who will be? It is your responsibility
as an accrediting organization to look out for our best interests as future
physicians and the best interests of our future patients.
Thank you,
PAIT
I wrote my letter - now where is yours?
ACGME is debating cutting family planning training for
family medicine residents. They are accepting feedback through
tomorrow. Please speak up, and ask everyone you know passionate about
this issue to do the same.
Comments are being accepted at familymedicine@acgme.org.
Also, the Reproductive Health Access Project has an online campaign going here. More information can be found here.
And tangentially related, what is going on in Kansas is
disturbing.
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